Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
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Baseten launched a new safety standard for open-source AI models alongside its Base Labs research program, in partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI.
The background is that open-source models are increasingly being sabotaged through a technique called abliteration — Hugging Face already lists over 6,000 such weakened models. Base Labs will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models in a way that makes safety built-in from the start, rather than added afterward. The companies argue that open models are actually safer than closed ones, because you can see how the models behave.
The scale of the problem is massive: Hugging Face, which hosts open-source AI models, currently lists over 6,000 abliterated models.
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